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Jao, author of Geiser, talks about the impact they had on his development in his post A Scheme Bookshelf[1]. Are there any CL equivalents? [1]http://programmin

Jao, author of Geiser, talks about the impact they had on his development in his post A Scheme Bookshelf[1]. Are there any CL equivalents? [1]http://programming-musings.org/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf/ http://programming-musings.org/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf...

agentultra 13y ago
There aren't equivalents that I know of, but the book did start off as the Little Lisper and the recent edition that I have does have examples translated to CL in the footnotes.
mheathr 13y ago
The Little Schemer and Reasoned Schemer are tremendously fun reads. Little Schemer's writing and presentation style is the standard by which I compare all technical books now. The books happen to use scheme as their teaching platform but the books are entirely about communicating the concepts that happen to be a part of scheme. The way the Little Schemer teaches recursion is absolutely brilliant. If I found myself teaching an intro programming class that would be a part of the curriculum as it is short and communicates the concept in a way that is inescapable while not being dry whatsoever and can be entirely read in a few short settings at most. By the way, I know from personal experience that at least the majority of the books listed in Jao's scheme bookshelf can be readily worked through in a Common Lisp that supports full TCO, which according to an article from 2011 (http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html) is at least CMUCL SBCL CCL Allegro LispWorks I happen to have used SBCL, but I imagine the others would work just as well for these purposes. Having not worked through them, I cannot confirm whether Programmer avec Scheme or Lisp in Small Pieces can be worked through in CL with slight modifications to the source but I do not see why not. Google suggests that there does not exist a translation of Programmer avec Scheme anywhere, and no reviews are available on either amazon.fr or amazon.com; that is unfortunate.

agentultra 13y ago

There aren't equivalents that I know of, but the book did start off as the Little Lisper and the recent edition that I have does have examples translated to CL in the footnotes.

mheathr 13y ago

The Little Schemer and Reasoned Schemer are tremendously fun reads. Little Schemer's writing and presentation style is the standard by which I compare all technical books now. The books happen to use scheme as their teaching platform but the books are entirely about communicating the concepts that happen to be a part of scheme. The way the Little Schemer teaches recursion is absolutely brilliant. If I found myself teaching an intro programming class that would be a part of the curriculum as it is short and communicates the concept in a way that is inescapable while not being dry whatsoever and can be entirely read in a few short settings at most. By the way, I know from personal experience that at least the majority of the books listed in Jao's scheme bookshelf can be readily worked through in a Common Lisp that supports full TCO, which according to an article from 2011 (http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html http://0branch.com/notes/tco-cl.html) is at least CMUCL SBCL CCL Allegro LispWorks I happen to have used SBCL, but I imagine the others would work just as well for these purposes. Having not worked through them, I cannot confirm whether Programmer avec Scheme or Lisp in Small Pieces can be worked through in CL with slight modifications to the source but I do not see why not. Google suggests that there does not exist a translation of Programmer avec Scheme anywhere, and no reviews are available on either amazon.fr or amazon.com; that is unfortunate.